Social Impact Projects

Student: “I thought coming to school on a Saturday was going to be boring. But this was fun!”

As the VP of Education at United Nations Association of Atlanta, my fellow Board members and I hosted an Earth Day celebration with the students of Indian Creek Elementary School in Clarkston, Georgia. The students interacted with TWIN Science & Robotics STEM kits, cleaning up school grounds, and learning about the United Nations, UN Foundation, UNA-ATL and climate action. Special thanks to the teachers at Indian Creek Elementary School for hosting us. And a warm thank you to the American-Turkish Friendship Council for their donation of new and gently used clothing which were given to the students.

Recording of Sustainable Coffee Talk 4: Community Engagement, Impactful Internships and Mentorships

Recording for Sustainable Coffee Talk 3: Women's Empowerment Roundtable Summit 2021, Advancing Global Goals, Best Practices and Lessons Learned.

Recording of Sustainable Coffee Talk 2: Advancing Climate Action and Social Equity

Recording of Sustainable Coffee Talk 1: The Pandemic's Impact on K-12 Education, Challenges and Opportunities after COVID-19

Mobilizing Science Education at Home, #100Kits100Lives Challenge

providing science kits and education to underserved students during the COVID pandemic. This partnership program is hosted by UNA-Atlanta, RCE Greater Atlanta, Indian Creek Elementary School (Clarkston, GA), YGA TWIN Science Group (Istanbul, Turkey), Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village (Rwanda), and Women Igniting Change

2020 Goalmakers

Goalmakers is a program of Global Washington to accelerate progress toward the Global Goals. UNA-Atlanta was chosen to host the 2020 Goalmakers Atlanta private roundtable and public webinar on SDG 5: Gender Equality

Summary report of the five cities that comprised the National Goalmakers Network. Goalmakers Atlanta hosted a private roundtable discussion on SDG 5.2: Gender Equality, Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.

Recording of 2020 Goalmakers Atlanta: Empowering Girls as Global Citizens. Hosted by UNA-Atlanta, RCE Greater Atlanta, Atlanta Mayor's Office of International Affairs, and Global Washington.

Guest Speaker Engagements

Hosted by International Women's Think Tank, celebrating the 48th anniversary of United Nations' International Women's Day and Women's History Month. This webinar featured women leaders who utilizes the power of storytelling to create positive change in their local and global communities.

Hosted by Global Water Alliance as part of their webinar series, On the Road to Dakar: Recruiting the Voices of Youth for the 9th World Water Forum. Featured speakers included Mamadou Guise, Executive Secretariat 9th World Water Forum; Claire Sliney, Oscar-winning producer of Period. End of Sentence., Co-founder of The Pad Project; Dr. Arun Deb, Adjunct Faculuty at the University of Pennsylvania; Nalat Phanit Black, SDG Director, United Nations Association of Atlanta; Linda Bui, Government Relations Specialist, Council of Ontario Universities; Jordan Ermillo, Director, Villanova University Center for Humanitarian Engineering and International Development; Christa Cook, Co-founder, Solidarity Engineering; Kelly Bridges, Global Water 2020.

Hosted by Holly Noon. This was Episode 14 of the So Please Understand weekly talk show series. Each episode features "guest speaker or group panel with the intent to have meaningful conversations and provide various perspectives to educate people on topics such as business, health, entrepreneurship, racism, social justice issues, history, politics, education, and current events.

Website: https://www.hollynoon.com

Hosted by Nuclear Watch South as part of the 75th anniversary Hiroshima / Nagasaki atomic bombings commemorations. #BLACKLIVESMATTER AND THE BOMB featured Dr. Vincent J. Intondi, author of African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism and the Black Freedom Movement.

Written Works

My short story, Making a Difference, was published in a Portuguese textbook, Bridges Ingles 11 Ano, by LeYa Educacao.

I was a 2014 United Nations Association of USA Blogger Fellow for the 2014 Social Good Summit. My writings for this fellowship included Standing in Solidarity for Climate Action and Imploring Millennials to Solve Climate Change.

For more written works, please visit my writing archive.

Certificates of Recognition

I was the Chairwoman of UNA-Atlanta's Nominating Committee, recruiting diverse committee members to design the Board of Director's election process, election ballot, and behavioral-based interview process.

I was a recipient of UNA-Atlanta's 2017 Certificate of Recognition for local leadership and dedicated champion of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

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